OBN stands for On Bro ‘Nem. Where I come from life rough.
So on my brother, I’m gonna do what I got to do to be the best person can be in life.
That’s for my brothers, that’s for the people I love.
That’s what that mean.
I’m OBN Jay.
Young Grind and AB made the “Tragic Story” beat.
It was just sent to me in my email like a random person just sent it to me in my email.
I could send a message, I could just say how I feel when I heard the beat.
It was the same day I got out of jail.
I made just the hook in jail and then when I got out of jail, I went straight to the
studio and laid both of the verses down.
I was just so fucking with it.
That it was just a vibe so, that shit was just coming to my head.
When you go in jail they got different lines, and I was on Q3 and 4.
Where I’m from, it’s just slang, yo stepper is somebody who…
I’m trying to get it together, it ain’t my lifestyle being in jail man, I’m trying
to do something better with my life.
Before I went in, I had this opportunity to be great with the music so I ain’t finna,
nah, uh uh.
I’m not about to mess my life up like that, I’m finna go back out here, do what I know
how to do.
Hit the yo, the studio.
That’s what I do, you know what I’m saying.
That was just a set back.
I’m about to shake back come home and drop another one, stop playing.
That pack coming in and we gon’ smoke it, until we get loaded as fuck.
I’m telling you, that’s what that means.
If you ain’t with me, just you know what I’m saying you could leave, you could move
around.
We can keep our distance and that’ll be that.
Time is money.
Me and Duke tripping got pulled over, went to jail.
A lot of people knew me in there, you know what I’m saying.
And it was like you on your shit, you doing your shit, keep doing your shit.
Keep doing that.
You know what I’m saying?
They need to free you, you up.
Go do what you gotta do.
We really had them type of talks when I went back there.
That’s just a metaphor for me to say like I got people behind me who supporting me who
really like genuine support.
People I know, people I don’t know.
You know what I’m saying?
I know I just got people behind me who really like believe like I could do something with this.
This journey I’m on with this music man.
It’s up for this shit.
I just shit, hope I make it far.
That’s my number one priority.
This my lifestyle, this the way I feed myself and my family.
I don’t take this for granted at all.
I’m thankful, grateful for everything that’s coming to me.
I’m from South Baton Rouge, Baton Rogue Louisiana.
It’s rough, you never know.
You know what I’m saying?
You make it home after dark, send you a prayer up cause, that ain’t, sometimes, it’s
a lot of people that ain’t going home tonight.
It been times where I had to you know what I’m saying, lemme get this quarter out the
car, lemme get this dollar from ooo oop to go get me something to eat.
So much hatred so much, know what I’m saying, for nothing, but after a while it’s like
it gotta accept and they just ride the wave after a while.
Now they probably gonna be like “oh Jay on genius, Jay on Mass Appeal.
Check him out.”
When I first, first started rapping like trying to take it serious, I feel like I was dead
broke.
I ain’t really have too much.
That’s why I’m so like dedicated cause, you know what I’m saying I know what it
feel like to not have nothing and to be working and not earning nothing but shit you just
gotta have patience though shit.
That shit just motivated me to go hard.
I’m really like one of the sickest with this rap shit.
I’m pressure, I’m too pressure.
That’s some Louisiana shit though yeah that’s what we say.
Pressure, platinum plus.
I'm chasing. I'm chasing. I'm chasing.
One day, I’m gonna get it though it ain’t gonna be no tragic story no more nigga.
The opportunities I got, I look at it as I don’t have them.
Where I come from everybody don’t get that.
It would be great if they did, but they don’t so I look at is as it ain’t even me.
I look at it from the outside, so that I can motivate myself.